This site uses cookies

Excell Trade Frames Installs Windows At Multi-Million Free School Development

REHAU’s TOTAL70 window profiles, installed by Manchester’s Excell Trade Frames, have been chosen for a brand new free school in Manchester, which will provide education for up to 100 young people in the area with special learning needs.

The new single storey school building features an interesting mix of materials from contemporary aluminium to traditional timber. Eddie McGrath, commercial manager at Excell said: “The design required approximately 110 windows and full height screens, to provide the building with lots of ventilation and natural light. Windows made with Total70 profile were perfect for the job as they would provide a flexible, long lasting, low maintenance solution to the variety of new and refurbishment glazing required by the brief.”

Total 70 is one of Rehau’s most popular systems, offering a solution for both commercial and domestic projects. Suitable for new builds or refurbishment installations, the 70mm profile is available in chamfered and sculptured options, and the windows have single leg beads to provide easy but secure on-site glazing.

Eddie continued: “To win the contract for the school and make our offer stand out, we developed the design brief further by recommending a Smooth Anthracite Grey laminate finish, to seamlessly match the smooth finish of the aluminium doors already specified.”

To simply customise the look of the profiles, laminates – such as the increasingly popular grey tones which mimic the modern finish of aluminium – are a particularly cost-effective, no hassle solution. All high performance foil finishes are durable, scratch resistant and can be easily cleaned so they look newer for longer. The laminate is also resistant to UV light, heat and the weather so the colour won’t deteriorate or fade over time.